I wanted to get my dress finished today so I went ahead with getting the zip in this morning. Normally this is the part Dorothy does but she let me have a go today and kept telling me the different steps and which foot to use etc. Having a lining makes the process a little more difficult and when attaching the lining to the zip I must have pulled too much on one side as there ended up with excess fabric near the bottom. I noticed this error myself and asked Dorothy how I should correct it. This set me back some time as I had to unpick quite a bit of that stitching and re-do it again. Once this was in I had to bag out the armholes which was the most tricky part, there is a lot of twisting and pulling involved and it seemed at times that the dress was becoming one large knot. The last part to do was the hem and Janice suggested hand sewing it to give a more professional finish, this also means I don’t have to keep switching threads on a machine. I pressed the hem of the lining in place and Dorothy bagged out the split up the back.
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